Serve immediately or put in the freezer to harden for 1 hour. If frozen much longer, it gets hard. But, on the plus side, hard ice cream = milkshakes!

Do Probiotics Survive Freezing?

Good question!

Over time when frozen, some of the probiotics will be lost. However, when someone wants to take a break from culturing, they freeze their kefir grains to preserve them. So, at least some bacteria and yeast survive the freezing. Even if some of them die, some or most of them do not.

Specifically in the case of making ice cream, the probiotics are not frozen long-term — especially if serving the ice cream right out of the ice cream maker.

As a result, freezing is still a good way to preserve probiotic foods. 🙂

Do you make your own homemade ice cream? Have you ever thought to make probiotic chocolate ice cream?

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That sounds amazing! I love the variety of ingredients, and I bet they all work well together. I need to start making kefir.
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Andrew – I got the idea for avocado from an internet friend – she added it to coconut milk ice cream to make it creamier. It works! But imparts no discernible flavor. Well, perhaps a tiny, tiny bit. But it is pleasant and works very well – so that no one would know. (IMO)

We made this tonight and it was so good! With a few changes, of course. We used all cream in place of the milk. I added cinnamon and cardamom, which I almost always do to dairy or sweet items (a little Ayurvedic trick). I added some extra carob on top of the cocoa/raw cacao mix, to make it chocolate-y-er and sweeter. I added a banana, just because we have a whole bunch to use up. Actually 4 whole bunches, over 100lbs (we live in Hawaii and get bananas for free…). And I was out of sucanat, so I used a mix of raw honey, stevia, and my kombucha-feeding organic cane sugar. But the combo was still less than amount called for; we haven’t had fruit or sugar for a few weeks and need far less to satisfy now. The kids were so thrilled, we haven’t had ice cream for about 6 months! Thanks so much for the recipe, there are only so many kefir smoothies you can make!

I read a comment on an article (I don’t remember what or where), by someone who said they had experience as a research scientist. The comment said that they stored yeasts used for experiments at -176 F to put them completely to sleep, but that above that temperature, yeasts were still active. I thought that might help you…I hope!

Hello there, I have a question! Can I use my left over whey instead of using raw milk. How will it change the consistency and taste of the ice cream? Is it better to not try? Why does lite coconut milk not work?

Julien — I wouldn’t do that — at least not for ice cream. You could try it but you’d end up with a frozen whey concoction, maybe like an icy juice, more so than ice cream.

Lite coconut milk works, but it is a waste of money. All they do to get light is water down regular coconut milk yet charge the same amount of money. Plus, regular coconut milk is more creamy — thus making a creamier ice cream.

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